"I was reading the dictionary. I thought
it was a poem about everything."
                     --Steven Wright

Appropriate Preposition:

  • Favourable for ( অনুকূল (কোনকিছু) ) This situation is favorable to me for doing this.
  • Overcome with ( দমন করা ) He was overcome with fatigue.
  • Absent from ( অনুপস্থিত ) Rifat was absent from college.
  • Pass for ( গণ্য হওয়া ) He passes for a clever man.
  • Ambition for ( উচ্চাকাঙ্খা ) He has no ambition for fame in life.
  • Acquit of ( খালাস দেওয়া ) High court acquit him of the charge.

Idioms:

  • In one's teens ( তের থেকে উনিশ বছর বয়সের মধ্যে ) She is yet in her teens.
  • Crocodile tears ( ময়া কান্না ) He shed crocodile tears at our misery.
  • Tooth and nail ( তীব্রভাবে ) He fought tooth and nail against his enemy.
  • Call in question ( সন্দেহ করা ) No one can call his honesty in question.
  • In fine ( পরিশেষ ) In fine he declared his plan.
  • Beat about the bush ( কাজের কথায় না এসে আজেবাজে কথা বলা ) Please come to the point without beating about the bush